The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-16
GENERAL ITEMS.

DIR. Henry Carpenter, the head of the medical
faculty in Lancaster county, Pa, distinguished as
physician and surgeon, died in Lancaster on Sat-
urday, aged 6S years.
Mrs. George Gould is admitted by every body
but the members of her own to be the prettiest
woman that battles in the Coney Island surf dur
ing the present season.
Not long ago the fine 100000 Methodist
Church of jamestown, o., was destroyed by cy-
clone. It was rebuilt, and few days ago it was
struck by lightning and burned to the ground
Zachary Taylors daughter, the widow of Col
onel Bliss, is still living in Winchester, Virginia,
in good health and well-preserved beauty. Her
second husband, Phil. cambridge, died several
years ago.
SO far as can be learned, Mrs. E. G. Wood
son, a Cuban, living in Essex county. New York,
was the first woman to become naturalized in this
country. She took the oath of allegiance on JAN
uary 3, 1872.
The son of Joshua R. Giddings, the old Ohio
abolitionst, lives at Jefferson, the county seat of
Ashtabula county. He practices law and runs a
farm, but he takes very little interest in politics.
gives himself up to horses and lets politics alone.
Ten thousand citizens of Chester and Della
ware counties, Pa, mostly of the denomination of
Friends, and including .Sharpless have signed
a petition to the Board of Pardons, asking for the
Communication of the death sentence of Samuel
johnson, convicted of the murder of J ohm Sharp.
less.
The Lancaster, (Pa.) Inquirer says that a
shower of toads fell in the vicinity of Spring
Grove, Lancaster county, 9Th inst, the farms
of Peter II Souder and Christian Weaver. There
were millions of them, about the size of mans
thumb nail. The Inquirer vouohes for the truth
fulness of the story.
Theodore Thomas has advertised his with.
drawal from the National Opera Company. Mrs.
Thurber says that she is sorry to lose him, bat
that there are other conductors competent to
on the work. Mr.. Thomas, she says, received
S25 900 salary last season and this season he has
been paid $4,000 in cash and $1,000 in personal
notes, which. will be met.
The effects of the new Minnesota High License
law are shown in Minneapolis. In that city last
year 334 saloons paid $4,000 into the city treas
ury. The $1,000 license law has just gone into
effect, and if the whole number of dealers who
have applied for licenses take them at $1,000
apiece, it will bring $24, 900 more money for lab
less saloons than last year.
The question as to whether the naturalization
of foreigner has the effect to make his minor son
a citizen on coming of age has been tried in Mis-
souri, in contested election for the office of Sher
if. The Supreme court of that State held that the
minor was made O citizen by the naturalization of
his father, but the case has been appealed to the
United States Supreme Court
Twelve millions of dollars will be paid out
for pensions during the current month, and as
much more in August. The diversion of these
sums into the channels of circulation, together
with the redemption of $40 ,000,0 600 of per cent.
bonds called on July 1, is expected by the Treas
ury Department to prevent any undue accumula-
ton of surplus revenue during the months to eapse
before the meeting of Congress.
DIR. R. N. Mills, of Elmira, N. Y, the leader
in the "Blind" Patterson pension fraud, perpetra-
ted in that city, has been sent to Jail, where he
will remain until the next United States Court.
His bail is so high, 81 000 that no friend will be-
come his bondsman. Captain John Laidlaw, the
partner of Mills in the crime, and "Blind" Patter-
son, are already in jail. Ofthe $13,32O that Mills
got from the government, $11 IT'S has been recov-
cred, the doctor having given few dollars to
"Blind" Patterson, and spent the remainder on
his Virginia spree, when Detective Jacobs captur-
ed him.